Human Action, Liberty, and Power
Rothbard supplies the theoretical spine of the curriculum, spanning economic theory, political philosophy, intellectual history, monetary theory and American history. Together these books ask how individuals act, how markets coordinate, how property and prices emerge, how intervention changes incentives, and how political power expands. He compels the reader to distinguish voluntary exchange from coercion, economic coordination from political command, property from privilege, and market discovery from administrative imposition.
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market
Murray RothbardFR ?Phase 22520hThe Ethics of Liberty
Murray RothbardFRPhase 22627hEconomic Thought Before Adam Smith
An Austrian Perspective, Vol. IMurray RothbardENPhase 42726hClassical Economics
An Austrian Perspective, Vol. IIMurray RothbardENPhase 42822hConceived in Liberty, Vol. I
Murray RothbardENPhase 42913hConceived in Liberty, Vol. II
Murray RothbardENPhase 43016hConceived in Liberty, Vol. III
Murray RothbardENPhase 43121hConceived in Liberty, Vol. IV
Murray RothbardENPhase 43214hConceived in Liberty, Vol. V
The New Republic, 1784–1791Murray RothbardENPhase 4Not part of the thirty-eight. These extend the core reading and are woven into the reading sequence.
The Federalist Papers
Hamilton, Madison & JayCounterweightDemocracy in America
Alexis de TocquevilleRead Rothbard critically, not devotionally. His consistency is his strength and also where scrutiny is most needed. Separate analysis from rhetoric, test his historical readings against competing accounts, and confront the framework with the strongest arguments for constitutional government and public authority.